Cholecystectomy (ko-luh-sis-TEK-tuh-mee) is a type of surgery that removes a diseased gallbladder. This surgery is usually done as a laparoscopic surgery. The doctor puts a lighted tube and other ...

After laparoscopic surgery ... to eight weeks before you can return to a more manual job. If your gallbladder removal surgery was performed via an open surgery method, you will need to stay ...

In laparoscopic surgery, surgeons create four small incisions to insert a camera and tools, allowing for precise removal of the gallbladder without the need for large cuts.

In patients with symptomatic gallbladder stones who were found to have asymptomatic concomitant common bile duct stones (CBDS ...

Laparoscopic surgery is a type of “minimally invasive” surgery involving very small incisions (0.5-1cm) as opposed to traditional surgery which uses larger cuts. In a laparoscopic procedure, the ...

According to Lo, the approach has many benefits over the laparoscopic cameras traditionally ... the team have already used the camera during gall bladder removal surgery on pigs (pictured, right).

Rarely cancerous growth can also affect the gallbladder. In these cases, surgical removal of this organ is ... and 100 gallstones are removed during a surgery. In this one, a successful extraction ...